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The MADIT II and COMPANION studies: will they affect uptake of device treatment?

The MADIT II and COMPANION studies: will they affect uptake of device treatment?
The MADIT II and COMPANION studies: will they affect uptake of device treatment?
Primary prophylaxis of sudden cardiac death by implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) treatment will greatly increase ICD implant numbers. This will have major cost and infrastructure consequences. Those studies that have demonstrated the clinical need have been industry driven. Whether their conclusions should now expand ICD indications is debated, but it would be perverse to suggest that hesitancy in ICD treatment expansion relates to reservation about the clinical science rather than to concern about cost and resource implications.
sudden cardiac death, implantable cardioverter-defibrillator
243-245
Morgan, J.M.
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Morgan, J.M.
e1a187e2-3fae-414d-86b6-dfe336ec94f9

Morgan, J.M. (2004) The MADIT II and COMPANION studies: will they affect uptake of device treatment? Heart, 90 (3), 243-245. (doi:10.1136/hrt.2002.007807).

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Abstract

Primary prophylaxis of sudden cardiac death by implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) treatment will greatly increase ICD implant numbers. This will have major cost and infrastructure consequences. Those studies that have demonstrated the clinical need have been industry driven. Whether their conclusions should now expand ICD indications is debated, but it would be perverse to suggest that hesitancy in ICD treatment expansion relates to reservation about the clinical science rather than to concern about cost and resource implications.

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Published date: 2004
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Keywords: sudden cardiac death, implantable cardioverter-defibrillator

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Local EPrints ID: 25831
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/25831
DOI: doi:10.1136/hrt.2002.007807
PURE UUID: f8a11a9e-eaaf-4358-85ca-224e72c7ca0b

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Date deposited: 11 Apr 2006
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 07:05

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Author: J.M. Morgan

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